apart
adverb
1.
2.
not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- “these problems apart, the country is doing well”
- “all joking aside, I think you”
3.
away from another or others
- “they grew apart over the years”
- “kept apart from the group out of shyness”
- “decided to live apart”
4.
5.
one from the other
- “people can”
adjective
1.
remote and separate physically or socially
- “existed over the centuries as a world apart”
- “preserved because they inhabited a place apart” W.H.Hudson
- “tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization”
- “an obscure village”
2.
Origin
From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).
Related words
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